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This is the 4 Minute Window Advent calendar for 2017 (can you believe it?) As always, my goal is to do a bit of the story every day (knock wood) between the Immaculate Conception and Christmas. Explicit eventually, the rest as it comes. Feel free to send me your hopes and dreams if there's something you want to see in this 'verse and I'll do what I can (if it fits and makes sense). Hope you enjoy: buckle up! LATE BREAKING NEWS: Bonus!!- this series will feature art by the magnificent Alby Mangroves!

Summary

There wasn’t anything left to salvage. That’s what Fury believed. It would have been a kindness to put him down.

When SHIELD finally releases Bucky from custody, he is not the man anyone expects him to be. Steve struggles to reconcile the stranger with the man who was once his best friend, but with Hydra regrouping after the events at Triskelion, Steve is dragged back into battle when Bucky needs him the most. Meanwhile, Hydra is itching to have its prize weapon back under their control, and a devastating betrayal pits Bucky against a terrible piece of ex-SHIELD tech that threatens to destroy everything he's struggled to rebuild. In order to survive, he must decide who he is going to be: the vulnerable Bucky Barnes or the indomitable Winter Soldier? It turns out there might not be as big a difference as everyone seems to think.

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Bucky Barnes has finally come home.

A year and a half after the events on the helicarriers, desperate for a safe haven and a chance to finally rest, Bucky takes Steve at his word and returns to the dilapidated row house in Brooklyn where he and Steve once lived.

Room by room, he slowly starts to fix up the house as he works on his own recovery, while Steve starts to circle closer and closer. It's not easy; it was never going to be easy, and as Steve and Bucky draw even closer to each other in their dance, there are new steps to learn and old wounds to heal.

But nothing has ever been able to stop these two boys from Brooklyn, and as they start to share food, trips to Home Depot, late night runs and eventually laughter, it turns out that Bucky isn't the only one who needs help healing.

That's only if Steve can get Bucky to believe in himself and the life they have started to build together, and convince Bucky to stay.

Summary

Post-movie AU in which Bucky didn’t just leave Steve on a river bank...he took him.

Many thanks to rennemiles and sansets for beta-reading this and being willing to talk at length with my incoherent ass. I will be posting a chapter a week.

Warnings are in the beginning of each chapter, with more detailed descriptions of potential triggers in the notes at the end of each chapter. If anyone spots anything else in the fic that I should have tagged for but did not, please do not hesitate to tell me. At times there is dialogue in Russian--translation in hovertext.

ETA: this work has been translated into Chinese by cindyfxx and can be read here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/2140611/chapters/4676136. ETA2: And fanart + Chapter covers by cindyfxx's friend juefeifeifei.tumblr.com!